vVhcn the Lord breathes His wrath nbove the bosom of the waters, When the rollers arc a-poundin' on the shore, When the mariner's a-thinkin' of hi; Wife and son and daughters, And the little home he'll, maybe, sec no more; Whf'ii the bars are white and yeasty and the shoals are all a-frothin', When the wild no'theastcr's cuttin | like a knife. Through the seethin' roar and screech he's patrol in' on the beach— The Gov'ment's hired man fer savin' life. —Joe Lincoln. Today Uncle Sam's hired men for saving life endangered by storms on the coast patrol the beaches from Quoddy Head 011 the North Atlantic to Cape Disappointment on the North Pa cific, and are also to be found on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, swept by storms as fierce as any that ever raged on the Atlantic. Upwards of two thousand men strain their eyes and ears out to sea every ' minute of the day and night; and near ly ever hour that parses these winter ■ days, somewhere a!or.'» the storm-Va \ ten coasts the members of saving crews ' are risking their own lives to save ship wrecked fellow beings, or putting forth every human effort possible to warn them that go down to the deep in ships The Cameron County Press. away from destruction on hidden reef and sunken bar. Since the day when Uncle Sam began to employ coast guards, his heroes of the surf have saved upwards of a quar ter of million lives. Under the present system of life saving, dating from 1871, they have attended fifteen thousand dis asters, and out of the 105,000 lives in volved they have been able to save all except one in every hundred. As sec ondary work, of the $225,000,000 worth of property imperilled, they have saved an amount valued at $175,000,000. No other life saving service of the world can point to a record anywhere near comparable to this in epic grandeur. A moment spent in reflection on these sta tistics will reveal the transcendental heroism back of them. On one hand, the combined elements, in their fiercest mood, roaring destruction; on the other, a handful of men in oils and sou'wes- "PICTORIAL .COLOR AND fAAGAZINfi SECTION -4 EMPORIUM, PA., MARCH 28, 1907. ters—a crew of six or seven men; and in the average instance, the little band of fighters overwhelmingly victorious. Where is the much vaunted heroism of battle when compared with the unseen heroism that takes place in the black night on some lonely strip of beach? For while one is the excited heroism of 1 destruction, the other is llie calm iiero ism of salvation. The Government spends annually j about $1,750,000 for the maintenance of the service. This is less than one-fourth of the property value saved from the sea in the same period, to say nothing of the lives succored. Each succeeding year finds the sum set aside by the Gov ernment for life saving somewhat aug i mented; the first appropriation called for $5,000. This was made in iS.;7, and with it the keepers of light houses along 1 the Atlantic coast were furnished, with means to render assistance in case of ship wrecks. The life saving service proper was not really instituted until the following year, when an appropriation of SIO,OOO was made for the establish ment of eight life saving stations on the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor. And right here let the man who was most instrumental in securing this ap propriation—the man who is, therefore, the founder of the life saving service— tell how he came to conceive the Idea of the service. It is a story little known' yet it forms an interesting chapter in the history of federal life saving. Thus it is told by Dr. William A. Newell, who, though well along in the until recently was actively practicing medicine in Allentown, N. J.: "My identification with the life sav ing system ot the United States was the result of a marine disaster I happened to view during the summer of 1839, Hi 'i m i't—— imi ' B|Safe For The House *■"%. ■' THe V HI HHtlic Iver Johnson la safe leave In the bouse or with H h AMMPRiI I I m MB® women. The feminine fear of firearms Is dispelled ■■ » i m a when you "hammer the hammer."- The Iver Johnson K>i*& Mil [yl* 1 ■ Automatic can never he discharged by hitting or catch- B h\ M ,n K the hammer on anything. 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J., near the Mansion House, south of Bar negat Inlet, when the captain and crew, thirteen in number, were drowned and their bodies washed upon the strand. "The wreck occurred at midnight. The vessel struck a sandbar, three hundred yards from shore, and was driven by the force of the violent winds, through the surf, upon the beach, where, when the tide receded, she lay stranded, high and dry. The sailors were drowned while endeavoring to swim ashore from the bar, where the vessel had lodged for a time, and the bodies were found scat tered along the beach for more than a mile. "The bow of the bring being elevated and close to the shore, after the storm had ceased, the idea was forced quickly upon my mind that those unfortunate sailors might have been saved if a line could have been thrown to them across Continued on Next ¥*ge.
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